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Demi Lovato Hospitalised Following Drug Overdose
July 25, 2018 Social Media Wizard Leave a Comment
Pop singer Demi Lovato has been rushed into hospital, following what is suspected to be a possible heroin overdose. This news comes just weeks after she revealed she had a relapse, doing so through her latest single 'Sober'.
The singer has been consistently honest with her supporters regarding her ongoing battles with drug and alcohol addiction; including announcing her stint in a rehabilitation centre; which she admitted was unsuccessful. Although, she had been sober for around six years, due to her staying in a sober living home, the heroin overdose came as a bit of a surprise for everyone.
Demi Lovato rose to fame as the young star of the popular Disney movie, 'Camp Rock', and her career has continued to be a success ever since. She has appeared as a judge on American Idol, and registered seven top 20 singles on the Billboard Top 100.
Demi Lovato at the American Music Awards, relapsed on Tuesday night. Credit: People
Her personal struggles have been well documented, particularly since 2010 when her battle with bipolar disorder and self-harm came to light. She famously withdrew from a concert in the same year to receive treatment for physical and emotional issues; this came after she punched a performing dancer backstage. In response to her personal battles, she released her own book about the issues entitled Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year.
The previously mentioned song 'Sober' served as both a reveal of her relapse into drugs, as well as an apology to her fans, friends and family, delivered in a heartfelt manner. Throughout the track, the line "I'm so sorry I'm not sober anymore" is repeated. The superstar is not without support however, after an outpour of tweets have flooded in offering words of consolidation for Demi Lovato and her family.
Demi Lovato with her latest song, 'Sober' touches upon her struggles with substances. Credit: YouTube
In 2017, Demi Lovato released a YouTube documentary in which she opened up and went more in-depth into her private issues. In it, she revealed that she first experimented with cocaine when she was just 17-years old; during the filming of Disney Channel show 'Sonny with a Chance', stating that she "loved it". She also spoke of her family, explaining that her mother had always tried to steer her away from drugs, as addiction was rife within her family.
Her father, however, was perhaps a factor in her future spirals; with her saying: "'My dad was an addict and an alcoholic. I guess I always searched for what he found in drugs and alcohol because it fulfilled him, and he chose that over a family".
The singer is currently being treated in an undisclosed hospital, unfortunately her condition is currently unknown. Everyone here at Brainstain wishes her a speedy recovery.
Story by Nathan Warby
Featured Photo Credit: USA Today
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Is walking on a treadmill at an incline as good a workout as running on one?
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Since Google launched their social media platform Google + in 2011 a lot of articles have been written about what the future will bring for the sociosphere and what impact 'another social networks' will have on the ecosystem. In the beginning there were more negative comments, but now you gradually hear opinion leaders changing their minds. Two years later we see that Google has made an enormous amount of technical changes to its platform AND is adapting the strategy for its other products in their portfolio, all this in favor of Google+.
In the social network lifecycle there is at the moment a movement towards A/ more visual content B/ more 'news'-worthy content. Facebook recently changed its edgerank algorithm again. The main purpose is to 'offer the user a better experience'. Analyses shows that people are mostly interested by 'news' content. These types of Facebook posts, its open graph action and thus 'social stories' get the most interaction in terms of post clicks, shares, referral links, likes and comments. With the rising amount of advertisers entering the "Face-o-sphere" it becomes a battle for advertising space on Facebook. Combine this trend with the fact that Facebook aims to offer 'the best content for you', they changed their algorithm based on this vision. It's Facebook's mission 'to be the best personalized newsfeed'. This implies a disruption in Facebook content planning for brands. They cannot longer just spread memes and fun stuff. Qualitative content will be king again. If you take this 'news' trend into account, you see Facebook is more and more entering the atmosphere of Twitter and Google +. The latter platforms are inherently more "news" minded than Facebook. So they've got an advantage here. Now, take a look at Google + in depth. It's the excellent platform to position your brand as visually as possible. And it combines the best of both worlds. Its "newsfeed" is news content optimized.
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Peanut Allergies
Can a peanut butter allergy cause inner ear infections?
By: HowStuffWorks.com Contributors
An allergy to peanut butter is probably caused by an allergy to peanuts. Such allergies are the immune system's overreaction to harmless substances. Instead of letting you enjoy peanut butter, your body attacks the proteins in peanuts by releasing antibodies called immunoglobulin E. The antibodies then release chemicals, including histamine, to kill off the invading peanut allergen. Your body responds to these chemicals with a variety of allergic symptoms. These symptoms can include skin problems, respiratory issues, stomach disturbances and worse.
Research has shown that there might be a link between food allergies -- peanut allergies included -- and middle ear infections. Middle ear infections are the type that kids commonly get, where fluid is trapped behind the eardrum and bacteria grow, causing an earache. They usually go away on their own, though doctors can prescribe antibiotics, too. Inner ear infections are less understood; they typically cause intense vertigo. There's no evidence so far that allergies can cause an inner ear infection.
If you have an allergic reaction to peanuts, the tube that connects your throat to your ear might swell up. The swollen tube then causes fluids, which belong in your throat, to get trapped behind your eardrum. Those fluids contain bacteria, and the warm, dark inner ear is a good spot for the bacteria to keep growing. The bacteria then cause an ear infection called otitis media with effusion, which is noticeable by symptoms that include a fever, cough, runny nose and ear pain. Studies point out that antihistamines could prevent the swelling of the tubes and thereby prevent allergy-related ear infections. It's important to note that in general, ear infections aren't caused by allergies; the research has uncovered a link that's applicable in some cases.
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The number of food delivery app startups in the last six to twelve months have drastically increased.
Just to make sure we're on the same page: A food delivery application is one which takes an order on the app and transfers it to a restaurant or its own kitchen, which then a delivery boy picks up the order and delivers it.
The core focus of most food delivery businesses is the convenience for customers so they often ignore to do food quality control. And unfortunately, the core focus of most customers is bit different: the quality and the taste of food is something that the customers can't influence.
Can a food delivery app startup generate more revenue on each order than the cost of delivering an order?
Currently, most of the food delivery businesses are suffering three times the cost in delivering each order as compared to profit being generated from it. So obviously, these startups are unprofitable.
Although, there is still hope that in near future, the revenue on each order would exceed the cost in delivering an order and it would finally become one of the most profitable business.
However, it has now become even harder to execute.
The on-demand food delivery business is tough. There is a lot to take care of if you're trying to manage all aspects of the experience such as sourcing the food in your own kitchen, cooking the food as per order, and delivering it.
Due to this, the Sprig did not work out as well.
Sprig, the food delivery startup that makes and delivers the food has been shut down on 26th May 2017.
Like any other business in on-demand industry, food delivery businesses face similar obstacles of unknown location of demand creation and demand completion.
Therefore, if you're trying to figure out how to start a food delivery business successfully and avoid the business burnout, you must take care of the following important operating constraint.
Most customers want their food to be delivered within 60 minutes of order. If food is delivered beyond 60 minutes, the production tends to go cold and lose its taste and people hate that.
So below, we're sharing 3 different types of food delivery business models to get started with your food delivery app.
This model was used by the first generation of food delivery apps like GrubHub, Delivery Hero, and JustEat. These apps act as a pure software layer that displays the offering of independent restaurants, which manage delivery itself.
The main point of such food delivery mobile apps is to bring in a lot of new orders with the mobile platform.
Customer places an order in the mobile app.
Restaurant receives the order through email.
Restaurant then notifies that the order was received.
Restaurant makes the order and hands it to the delivery driver employed by the restaurant.
The delivery driver delivers the food and completes the order.
As the platform won't be responsible for either cooking the food or delivering it, it's possible to start generating revenue by charging a fee of 10-15%. These kinds of platforms tend to be highly scalable and have remarkable growth in future.
This model usually takes care of 1 and 3 step of the procedure. It brings more orders in, manages the delivery of them by its own fleet of delivery couriers connected by an Uber-like app for drivers.
As usual, ordering occurs at the app by customers. The order is then transferred to the restaurant. When it comes to delivery, the startup provides its own fleet of delivery couriers. This means, when the food is ready, restaurant notifies to a courier on duty. They're online through their courier app that tracks their location.
Once a courier receives an order, the courier decides whether they can or cannot complete the job. The first courier who claims the job gets the job. And delivery is done.
Such food delivery platforms, on average, charge commission fees between 20-30% on each order. Plus, some platforms also charge a flat delivery fee to customers.
Maple, SpoonRocket, and Sprig have opted for full integration of the process. They have a limited number of meals on their app, reheated in their delivery trucks or cars. As an order comes in, the food is delivered as fast as possible or within a time window stipulated by the customer.
Generally, the app opens to receive orders after preparing meals. As soon as orders are received, delivery is done through hired couriers almost instantly with a specified time. The ready meals are kept in heater in the courier vehicles to make sure that the order is delivered hot and fast to customers who ordered them.
While managing all aspects of delivering food and completing order can become stressful at times, but the revenue is generated at much higher scale. Since the platform is responsible for everything, it's easy to do the food quality control as well as delivering the order on time.
For any food delivery business to succeed, promoting on the right platform is important. While it's possible to use low cost promotional tools, but you can also opt for effective strategies such as social media marketing on different social platforms.
In addition, you can also use word-of-mouth advertising with the help of referral program.
Online discount codes are also quite popular. You can negotiate with the restaurants for good discount rates.
Lastly, remember that the most crucial factor for any business to succeed is to focus on spending as much time as possible on revenue generating activities. This helps to grow cash flow and further expand your offerings.
And if you're sure which business model to start with, you can consult with a top mobile app development company to get the detailed idea about how each model actually works and which meets your budget.
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Q: How to customize the Security Group Ingress Rules created by a Kubernetes LoadBalancer type service that uses AWS NLB for TCP services I have a TCP service that runs on via a Kubernetes Deployment on an AWS EKS cluster and is exposed to the internet by a Service of type LoadBalancer using the following definition
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  annotations:
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: nlb
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol: tcp
  name: tcpservice
spec:
  selector:
    app: tcpapp
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
  - port: 4453
    targetPort: 4453
    name: tcpport

Because the load balancer type is NLB, the ingress traffic has to be explicitly allowed on the security group that is applied to the nodes themselves.  The security group was created like this:
✔ ~$ aws ec2 describe-security-groups --group-ids sg-2645567125762c6e2 | jq '.SecurityGroups[0].IpPermissions[0]'
{
  "FromPort": 32163,
  "IpProtocol": "tcp",
  "IpRanges": [
    {
      "CidrIp": "10.20.0.0/20",
      "Description": "kubernetes.io/rule/nlb/health=afd5427b6058811ea989512627425a2e"
    },
    {
      "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0",
      "Description": "kubernetes.io/rule/nlb/client=afd5427b6058811ea989512627425a2e"
    }
  ],
  "Ipv6Ranges": [],
  "PrefixListIds": [],
  "ToPort": 32163,
  "UserIdGroupPairs": []
}

So now I need to change the CidrIp in the "0.0.0.0/0" to a different block. How can I do this using kubernetes manifests? I've looked at the NetworkPolicy and Calico documentation, but this controls traffic to pods not services. I can change it with the AWS API or manually, but those changes are lost when the service is redeployed.

A: you need to add in your service manifest the loadBalancerSourceRanges parameter.
from documentation:
In order to limit which client IP's can access the Network Load Balancer, specify loadBalancerSourceRanges.
spec:
  loadBalancerSourceRanges:
  - "143.231.0.0/16"

https://v1-13.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
how code is implemented can be found here:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/9d6ebf6c78f406d8639aae189901e47562418071/pkg/api/service/util.go

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Top docs say they've received threats from people disgruntled about safety measures
Paul Hollingsworth CTV News Atlantic Reporter
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Published Friday, September 25, 2020 10:17PM ADT
HALIFAX -- Two chief doctors of health in the Maritimes have received threats in recent days.
Dr. Robert Strang, the man leading Nova Scotia's effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic confirmed Friday he's not only been dealing with criticisms of how he's performed his duties, but a few times those criticisms have escalated into personal threats.
"Most times, it doesn't bother me," Dr. Strang said. "To me, it is more of a concern that there are people out there who feel that they can use that kind of language, if you will, to anybody."
Strang wouldn't specify their exact nature, but he says it's become so bad he's now staying off social media.
"I don't go there anymore because of the personal and unpleasant stuff that a small number of people do," Dr. Strang said.
Threats have also been directed at Prince Edward Island's chief public health officer.
"It can be frightening," said Dr. Heather Morrison.
And Dr. Morrison says she is taking them seriously.
"There have been threats at times," Dr. Morrison said. "It makes me concerned for my family and children and for my staff."
Social media expert Giles Crouch says in today's online world with texting and multiple media platforms, society has changed the way it communicates.
Criticisms have become sharper and he adds they often cross legal lines and line of civility and decency.
"If they were actually out in real world society, they actually wouldn't behave this way," Crouch said.
As for why people would threaten Strang and Morrison?
Crouch says it's all likely linked to COVID-19 protocols and enforcement.
"They don't want to wear a mask," Crouch said. "They don't want to be told what to do."
Crouch says that also includes some people who know what they are being told to do is actually keeping them safe.
This is not just happening in the Maritimes. British Columbia's chief medical officer of health also confirmed this week that she, too, has received some threats.
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